Green History: A Reader in Environmental Literature, Philosophy and PoliticsDerek Wall Routledge, 2 בספט׳ 2003 - 288 עמודים Green History traces the development of ecological writing through history and forms a broad critical review of green ideas and movements reinforcing the importance of environmental concern and action in our own time. Animal rights, ecology as science, feminism, green fascism/socialism/anarchism, land reform, peaceful protest, industrialization, ancient ecology, evolution, grassroots activism, philosophical holism, recycling, Taoism, demographics, utopias, sustainability, spiritualism ...all these issues and many more are discussed. Authors include Alice Walker on massacre in the City of Brotherly Love, Aldous Huxley on progress, Lewis Mumford on the organic outlook, Engels on natural dialectics, Thoreau on the fontier life, the Shelleys on vegetarianism and playing God, Bacon on the New Atlantis, Hildegard of Bingen on green vigour, the unknown writer of the Bodhisattva and the Hungry Tigress and Plato on soil erosion. Each article is set within its historical and thematic context. A full introduction and a guide to further reading are also provided. |
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Green History: A Reader in Environmental Literature, Philosophy and Politics <span dir=ltr>Derek Wall</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2003 |
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Alice Walker America ancient animals argued beasts beauty become birds Blake body Carlyle cause century Chapter Christian cities civilisation civilization concept conservation creation creatures culture D.H.Lawrence death deep ecology destruction divine earth economic Edward Carpenter environment environmental existence extinction extract factory flesh forest Frankfurt school fruit Goddess Greek Green movement Green parties Green politics growth Guild Socialism heaven Hildegard of Bingen holism human ideas industrial Kibbo Kift labour land lead living London look man’s means mechanical metals mind modern Green Morris nations nature Nature’s nonviolence organic original affluent society philosophy plants poet pollution population production progress radical religion Roman sacred scientific Shelley social socialist society soil soul species spirit Starhawk Taoism things thought tradition trees University Press Utopian vegetable vegetarian wealth White Goddess whole wild women woods Worster